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In answering this post’s title question, I’m not exactly sure. What I am sure of is that the Shins write some pretty damn good songs. James Mercer, the lead singer and songwriter writes lyrics that make me feel severely inadequate by comparison. While I’m not going to write any lengthy essay on “why I like [...]
I’m not usually a mad happy gamer, but the modest look of online empire building game, New Kingdoms, might seem to the uninitiated as fairly tame compared to its larger and prettier MMORG cousins. I’ve been playing this game fairly regularly since April this year, and I’m totally hooked! Do not be fooled, New Kingdoms [...]
The feeling you get when your ears catch hold of the opening bars of a great song is one of immense pleasure. In fact, this happened to me today. Seconds after I inserted the new released debut Cloud Control self-tilted EP into my laptop’s compact disc drive a new chapter of my life opened up. [...]
Years ago in an undergraduate history class I undertook a study into one of the many dark patches of the 20th Century, and wrote a small essay regarding the ‘denial of the Armenian genocide’ with a particular focus on Turkey. I was amazed that such a mass relocation and slaughter of an ethnic group could [...]
I had the distinct pleasure to catch some snippets of the Australian Idol “britpop” episode last sunday night.
Naturally, I was expecting badly perform covers of songs from Blur, Oasis, the Verve, or Pulp. Surprisingly, the Australian music public received badly performed covers of the Police, the Beatles, the Kooks, and Queen, but also took [...]
It’s like all my Christmas’s have come at once. This weeks Timeoff Magazine featured a review of an album by the name of “Curses†by a band called “Future of the Leftâ€. Never heard of this band, but I had heard of the band two of the members used to be in ….rejoice! mclusky have [...]